Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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BSG (Admiral Hoshi)
Ladies & Gentlemen of the fleet, this is your Admiral. We have bad news and good news. The bad news is, we lost a ship. Thankfully, it was a decoy, set up to distract the Cylons. We will miss it's spare parts. But we are thankful that no humans were hurt in the battle.
And on to the good news. We managed to spin up the FTL computers, and got a great jump! We have found ourselves at a
Barren Planet
. Sadly, it looks as if there are no resources for us to harvest. But, there are also no Cylons here either! It was a
double jump
! Hopefully, that will delay our pursuers for awhile.
Lick any wounds now. Check your ships for damage. Perform any needed maintenance. Now is the time, while the skies are clear.
Galactica Actual, out.
DA:I
I remembered a couple other bugs I have: One is ever since fighting my first dragon I get random, Matrix-esque super slo-mo in combat sometimes. It's a little weird, but not game-breaking (since I'm hitting the pause button a lot myself) so I don't think about it much.
The other is sometimes the tavern bard will either be singing acappella or else playing music without singing (though the subtitles will still show the words.) Obviously, this is only a minor annoyance.
If you're running on a PC, Rayne, there are a few tweaks to try to make things go smoother:
- Disable Origin In-Game. Apparently this is sucks up performance and performs no real function beyond annoying pop-ups.
- Run Origin in Off-line mode unless you're starting a new character.
- Try the different in-game audio modes to find the one that works best for your setup. Some people are finding having it set to Home Theater without a surround sound system results in the game trying to output audio to non-existent speakers.
- From your computer Device Manager disable any audio devices you're not using.
I've been doing all of the above and it seems to make a difference.
Thanks, Kalshane. I'm on an XBox One though. I'm hopping there have been some patches since I last played that will take care of some of these issues.
Okay. There was a patch a couple weeks ago, but I don't know how it worked out for the XBone side as I don't frequent those forums. I know on the PC-side it solved a lot of people's problems, but also caused problems for people who were working fine before.
BSG (Helo)
well jumped, Admiral.
I played DA:I for a few hours last night and had no issues whatsoever, so hopefully it's been resolved!
Good to hear, Rayne. Drives me nuts that Bioware is part of the EA behemoth now (not that their pre-EA games didn't have bugs, just didn't seem to be this bad. And Origin is a terrible service all around.)
BSG
Ok, sorry for the delay. I needed to check something with one of the players. Anyway, the fleet travels 2 Distance for 2 Fuel. That concludes Hoshi's turn. Helo's cards are going out. Helo, when you're ready, please post your move and action.
BSG
End-of-turn summary:
Round 2.1 - Hoshi
Locations and Hands
Hoshi: Command; 5 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Helo: Hangar Deck; 5 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Apollo: Quorum Chamber; 5 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Baltar: Pegasus CIC; 3 cards, 1 miracle token, 0 mutiny cards
Main Board Sectors
Sector 1: Empty
Sector 2: Empty
Sector 3: Empty
Sector 4: Empty
Sector 5: Empty
Sector 6: Empty
Resources
Fuel: 6
Food: 5
Morale: 10
Population: 12
Viper Reserves: 8
Damaged Vipers: 0
Raptors: 4
Assault Raptors: 1
Boarding Party: 0
Other
Nukes: 2
Jump Track: 0 (Red)
Distance Travelled: 2
Galactica Damage: 0
BSG
I have COs from Helo:
Launch into Sector 6 in an assault raptor
Play Launch Scout 1 on the crisis deck
Once again I have Ryan to roll the die for me. He gets:
Die roll: 8. Pass!
The top two cards of the crisis deck are going out. Helo, when you're ready, let me know how to distribute them.